This 50,000 Tonne Railway Embankment Could Collapse Into The River

The venn diagram of people interested in radio and railway engineering surely has to be close to a perfect circle

We need more videos like this... It shows how much must actually be done to keep infrastructure like the railways alive.

Sitting on glacial till, mudstone and siltstone. I am amazed this embankment has lasted this long. Great video.

I like the drone overview. It adds ample context and a better covering view than from the ground.

What an interesting video Lewis, I am sure the crew looked after you, I hope Network Rail give you some credit as it shows civil engineering at its best.

Great drone work, gives a view of the repair work that you never get to see otherwise!

I never realized how much I would learn about england from you. Thanks lewis!

Absolutely amazing shots. Loved this. Thank you.

Very interesting video. I live on the West of England Mainline at Templecombe. The line runs from Salisbury to Exeter St Davids. It is undulating with tunnels all the way to Exeter and often closed or suffers speed restrictions. Gillingham, Templecombe, Crewkerne and Honiton all having had or ongoing Engineering work required over the last few years. Cheers Pete

You can't go wrong with radio, trains and planes! Looking forward to updates!

I ended up watching this with great interest, mostly thanks to your wonderful explanation. Very nice drone footage too, you really captured the whole project very well. Great work and thanks as always for all your content.

Thank you for this video, it's good to see a highlight into the works that affect us. Just a footnote, since about early July, all services between Marple and Chinley (For Strines and New Mills Central) have been replaced by a bus, with services terminating and starting at Marple for Manchester.

Great presentation on geo technical engineering information.

Glad something like this is being taken care of, seems quite a serious situation but being handled well. Been reading up on the Railtrack saga as of late, its work that shouldn't be neglected.

Great video, the track was in a sorry state. I did 3 months working as PILOT for single line working on board the Northern trains Marple - New Mills Central & back.

long post , so grab a brew . i live in the area and as far as i know the banking has been known about for a few years , hell when i was at school i was told by a geology teacher about an area of track just outside of new mills central where the rails dont even touch the rail bed despite it being looked at several times. the wagons are now cutting through the bottom of the valley and causing a bit of mither as the road is not much more than a single track road with a fair few blind corners and sooner or later there will be a crunch. and at about 2 mins in the vid shows more works being done to the left side of the bridge where they are taking earth away from the banking as they landscape it to prevent further slippage on that side of the bridge , so you have wagons delivering stone (these are stones about the size of your head btw and im guessing the stones that go over the top are smaller etc) for one side and wagons taking dirt away from the other side . the kids park and allotments will be returned and made good if not better (cough) as the temp road has meant that a few sheds / fences have had to be removed or so i believe. and i spoke to a woman on site who turned out to be a geologist and i asked her what are the chances of the road building actually making the bank weaker with all the stone and heavy plant and causing the collapse they are trying to avoid she told me that the soil has been tested and it "should" take the weight of the works if they have there figures right. and the buses etc according to the ppl that have to use them seem to be somewhat random , ie there maybe a train or it maybe a bus but when either roll up is a lottery and if its a bus it may not get you to the next station in time for the train. the geologist did say that where the line is now isnt where they would put one now and after some 200 years the lines are showing there age and this what we have to deal with , so they are acutely aware that things are breaking down and when i said its all down to a bloke in a top hat who said "i can put a railway in there and build a bridge , pass me a pencil and ill work it out" , she said your right as man power wasnt an issue then.

The line Between Bradford Forster Square and Ilkley suffered a land slip at Baildon in February and was closed for repairs and reopened in June, no bus service between the two ends and even worse, houses had to be demolished at the top of the embankment due to unsafe foundations.

Half the reason why I watch your videos is the wonderful visuals, so I'm loving this. Btw, anyone else suffer vertigo at 2:12?

I love this gentle shift in topic from time to time, likewise the earlier shipping content

Thanks for this video and I would like to see an update. I believe this is happening in Los Angeles California rail systems also due to landslides which is about 500 miles from my Tucson, Arizona home. Have a great day!